Chief Vaillant: The heat pump is indispensable

Norbert Schedek, president of the heating company Vaelan, cannot understand that the reputation of the heat pump is currently tarnished: without the technology, it would be difficult to heat in an environmentally friendly way.

Mr. Shidek, the heat pump has a distorted image, as many associate it with political interference and not with advanced heat transfer technology – how do you find that as an engineer?

As an engineer, I saw for the first time that heat pumps can generate four times the amount of heat needed for heating from a single unit of electrical energy – an extremely efficient and environmentally friendly technology. But I also read almost daily reports in which the heat pump comes up almost as a problem. This is of course nonsense, the problem is climate change. The heat pump is an essential heat transfer technology and is indispensable if we want to build CO2 buildings₂– You want to heat freely – even if there are other technologies around. The large number of heat pumps installed in all European countries proves that the heat pump is a reliable technology, not only in new buildings, but also in the modernization of existing old buildings.